American Council for Kosovo - Meet the Muslim Albanian Leaders

Kosovoís leading politician and ex-prime minister went on trial on Monday at the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1998-1999 war for independence from Serbia.
Ramush Haradinaj and two other former guerrilla leaders under his command, also standing trial, are accused of organising the murder, rape, torture and intimidation...

Pristina, 26 Feb. (AKI) - An explosion damaged seven automobiles belonging to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the Kosovo town of Pec on Monday, just hours before former prime minister Ramus Haradinaj left for the Hague to stand trial before the United Nations' tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of crimes against Serb and other civilians during the 1998/...

THE HAGUE -- The Hague Tribunal stated that Ramush Haradinajís TV appearance sends a bad message to witnesses and the public.
Haradinaj stands accused of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal and is currently outside of custody until his trial begins.
Hague spokesperson Anton Nikiforov said that Haradinajís behavior during a television show last week sends a bad message.
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THE HAGUE (AP)--The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Thursday called on U.N. officials in Kosovo to help exhume the bodies of 14 people killed in 1998, in response to a request by defense lawyers for the province's former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj.
Haradinaj, the former commander of the Western-backed Kosovo Liberation Army, was charged in February 2005 with 37 counts of war crimes committed in...

One day before the death of the former Yugoslav dictator, the former Kosovar prime minister, who is the only important ethnic Albanian indictee, had his bail restrictions eased by the war criminal court. Moreover, Ramush Haradinaj is likely to return to political life. The Appeal Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia relaxed a ban on Haradinaj's public appearance...

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The American Council for Kosovo is an independent U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a better American understanding of the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija and of the critical American stake in the province's future.

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